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March 2009

  1. Open J-Gate

    Open J-Gate is an electronic gateway to global journal literature in open access domain. Launched in 2009, Open J-Gate is the contribution of Informatics (India) Ltd to promote OAI. Open J-Gate provides seamless access to millions of journal articles available online. It is also a database of journal literature, indexed from more than 3000 open access journals, with links to full text at Publisher sites. More than 300000 new articles added every year. Full-text links are regularly validated.

    The Open J-Gate site is updated every day. It indexes more than 3000 articles from academic, research and industry journals. More than 1500 of them are peer-reviewed scholarly journals. This database allows various search options for the user’s convenience. The subscriber can search by Title, Author, Abstract, Authors’ Address/Institution, Keywords, etc. And users can also browse the TOC of latest issue and the back issues.


  2. National Knowledge Commission

    National Knowledge Commission was established on 13th June 2005 and given a timeframe of three years from 2nd October 2005 to 2nd October 2008 to achieve its objectives.

    National Knowledge Commission focuses on certain key areas that can help India achieve its goal. These include education, science and technology, agriculture, industry, and e-governance. Broadly speaking, India needs to become a globally recognised player in the creation, application and dissemination of knowledge.

    The methodology of the Commission is to form Working Groups within each of its focus areas and make concrete proposals for reform directly to the Prime Minister through a series of White Papers. This task involves working in close collaboration with Central and State governments, professionals, academics, scientists, regulatory bodies, national think-tanks, industry representatives, civil society organisations etc.


  3. Council for Biotechnology Information

    The Council for Biotechnology Information (CBI) is a coalition of six of the world?s leading biotechnology companies and two trade associations. Its mission is to improve understanding and acceptance of biotechnology by collecting and communicating science-based information through a variety of channels.The website provides information about the role of biotechnology in agriculture and farming, benefits and safety of agricultural and food biotechnology.


  4. DeveloperWorks- Linux [IBM's technical resource for developers]

    developerWorks is IBM's website with technical resource for developers. It provides information and educational materials on a wide range of tools such as DB2, eServer, Lotus, Rational, Tivoli and WebSphere, open standards technology such as web services, wireless, Linux, XML, Java technologies and so on. It offers resources such as downloads, trials, white papers, how-to articles, tutorials, news, discussion forums and webcasts. Information provided also includes how to customize, build and install new kernels and kernel modules.


  5. ITJobsWatch [A perspective on the prevailing IT jobs market conditions]

    ITJobsWatch provides a unique perspective on the prevailing IT jobs market conditions. It provides information on how various IT skills interrelate, the IT skills needed for certain jobs, popular IT skills within specific regions and locations, the IT job market information including the level of demand for certain IT skills, a guide to the average salary and contractor rates offered. The information presented is an aggregate of the past 3 months to the last update date. A comparison to the same period last year is also provided. The data is based on the recruitment advertisements on the Internet and the press.


  6. Natural Resources Database (NRDB) - Free GIS for developing countries

    NRDB is a free GIS tool for developing and distributing environmental databases. Its aim is to provide people in developing countries with a powerful yet simple tool to assist in the managing of their own resources. The database structure consists of relational and hierarchical features and attributes. NRDB is also a time-series database, all data has a date associated with it. The users can therefore observe changes over time in the data. All data for the NRDB is stored in a single database file which can be redistributed with the software. NRDB software can assist with the following tasks - recording species and habitat data, monitoring the effect of management and impacts on environmental resources, collating information on environmental management and organisations, storing socio-economic information spatially, production of thematic maps of environmental concerns to assist in advocacy work, as a tool for training in environmental management and spatial mapping. The software should run on most Windows-based computers and requires only standard desktop peripherals such as a scanner and a printer.


  7. New Semiconductor Materials Archive

    This is an electronic archive by Ioffe Institute, one of Russia?s largest institutions for research in physics and technology. It intends to systematize parameters of semiconductor compounds and heterostructures based on them and thereby provide the physicists, both theoreticians and experimentalists, a tool to rapidly retrieve the semiconducting material parameters they are interested in. The archive covers both the known and new semiconducting compounds. It provides band, optical, electrical, mechanical, thermal and other properties of metals, oxides, silicides and other materials.


  8. Platonic Realms Interactive Mathematics Encyclopedia (PRIME)

    Platonic Realms Interactive Mathematics Encyclopaedia (PRIME) is a sponsored interactive web-based dictionary of mathematics. The user can browse entries by subject - basic maths, algebra, analysis, biography, calculus, computer science, discrete mathematics, economics, geometry, graph theory, history, foundations, number theory, physical science, statistics, topology, trigonometry. The encyclopaedia is continually building and allows users to submit definitions. Caters to both beginners and advanced maths


  9. Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation (PETSc)

    PETSc, the Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific computation, is a suite of uni- and parallel-processor codes for solving large-scale problems modeled by partial differential equations. PETSc employs the MPI standard for all message-passing communication. The code is written in a data-structure-neutral manner to enable easy reuse and flexibility. PETSc has been used for a variety of large-scaled applications in a wide range of areas such as nano-simulations, biology, cardiology, imaging and surgery, fusion, geosciences, environmental sciences, computational fluid dynamics, wave propagation, optimization. The current version of PETSc, released February 2009 is 2.3.1. Available at the site are links to download, features, documentation, tutorials, FAQ, applications, publications etc.


  10. Science and Engineering Indicators (SEI) [By National Science Foundation, USA]

    "Science and Engineering Indicators (SEI) is first and foremost, a volume of record comprising the major high quality quantitative data on the U.S. and international science and engineering enterprise. SEI is factual and policy-neutral. It does not offer policy options and it does not make policy recommendations. SEI employs a variety of presentational styles?tables, figures, narrative text, bulleted text, web-based links, highlights, introductions, conclusions, reference lists? to make the data accessible to readers with different information needs and different information processing preferences". SEI is prepared by the National Science Foundation's Division of Science Resources Statistics (SRS) on behalf of the National Science Board.


  11. Science and Visualization Challenge

    Pictures and Graphics enrich the research communications by illustratiting several ideas and concepts even in cases where the words fail. It is a necessity for proper understanding of a concept. With the popularisation of TV and the Internet, as well as availability of animation tools, there is an increasing tilt towards the graphics-oriented culture. To highlight the usage of graphics and also to encourage its usage, the National Science Foundation (NSF), USA and the Science, conduct Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. Winners will be selected in each of these five categories: photographs, illustrations, informational graphics, interactive media and non-interactive media. The winners will be published in a special section of the September 22, 2009 issue of the journal Science and Science Online and on the NSF website. Entries for 2009 are being solicited now and NSF invites all researchers and science communicators to participate in this unique and inspiring competition. Other details regarding the contest are available at the website.


  12. Web Design Reference Site

    This site is dedicated to providing knowledge of web design and development. It advocates accessibility, usability, web standards and many related topics. It provides news and information of web design and development theory and methods. It covers a wide range of topics covered such as accessibility, cascading style sheets, evaluation & testing, information architecture, JavaScript, navigation, labelling, standards, typography,usability and XML. It provides uasage tips and learning materials for Dreamweaver, Flash, PHP etc.


  13. WHAT IF web interface [A molecular modelling package]

    WHAT IF is a versatile molecular modelling package that is specialized on working with proteins and the molecules in their environment like water, ligands, nucleic acids, etc. The program provides numerous options in fields as diverse as homology modelling, drug docking, electrostatics calculations, structure validation and visualisation. The work earlier was in EMBL Heidelberg, and presently the continuation is at the CMBI of the Radboud University Nijmegen.


  14. World Wind [Windows software for Landsat satellite imagery]

    World Wind lets the users zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, it provides a realtime visual experience of Earth terrain. World Wind is open source Windows software. Latest version available is 1.3.


 

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